Blog Lists, Directories & Search Engines

Comprehensive searchable or browsable listings of blogs and blog-related websites, including blog review sites. Includes all general reference sites with a web-log specific focus.

Resources in this category:

Best Spiritual Blogs
http://www.beliefnet.com/News/2004/08/Best-Spiritual-Blogs.a...

Beliefnet's frequently updated, select list of spritual blogs, which is inclusive of many different religions. There is also a link to BlogHeaven, another part of Beliefnet where posts from the best blogs hosted by Beliefnet are collected.

Blog Search Engine - Blog Directory, Blog Search, Blog Directories - Links Menu
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/

Presents a collection of blogs that have been submitted to this site. The title of this webpage has the word "directory" in the title twice for a good reason: the directory is much more useful than the search engine itself, but that's the norm with blog search engines. The site is somewhat ad-intensive.

Blogcritics.org
http://blogcritics.org/index.php

A collaborative blog where bloggers review "music, books, film, popular culture, and technology." Popular culture is a grab bag of responses to politics, recent news items, controversial issues, and things to see and do around the country and the world (like the Dachua Beer festival). One can also find discussions/responses to current events in music, books, and film here.

Intelliseek's BlogPulse
http://www.blogpulse.com/

BlogPulse is "an automated trend discovery tool," i.e., a blog search engine and a few automated tools used daily to analyze blogs and discover what topics/subjects people are talking about. The search engine works very well at finding blogs that mention a given search term, e.g. "economy," but less well at finding blogs about the economy. The site focuses on being able to find the most popular links, people, and phrases appearing in blogs.

BlogStreet India - Blog Profiles, RSS Ecosystem, Blog Tops, Search and Directory
http://blogstreet.com/

Offers a host of methods for searching for Indian Blogs. Aside from a search engine and a directory, you can search for submitted blogs by "Author, Email, Rank, Category, Reviews, Rating, Related Blogs, Books, Music, RSS." There is also "Neighborhood" search, which searches for blogs similar to a given blog based on sites that blogroll each other; "BlogBack" search, which searches for blogs that have a specific individual's blog in their blogroll; and "Googlatives," which finds blogs that Google finds to be related to your blog.

The BoBs - The Best of the Blogs International Competition
http://www.thebobs.com/

The BoBs international panel of blog experts sorts through over 100 nominees to choose winners in 11 different categories for Deutsche Welle's, the German international broadcasting service's, International Weblog Awards. Prizes are also awarded according to users' votes.

CrunchBase
http://www.crunchbase.com/

Want to know about Facebook, Twitter or Steve Jobs? "CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit."

dmoz - open directory project: weblogs
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/

The Open Directory Project maps the web by letting users organize a small portion of the web and submit it back to the directory. This branch of the directory provides more than 4,000 weblogs organized by weblog type, subject, and language.

ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online
http://echo.gmu.edu/

Thousands of "websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry."

Globe of Blogs
http://www.globeofblogs.com/

Blog directory (and search engine) allowing users to browse registered blogs by name, birthday (of blogger), title, topic, location, and gender (of blogger). Most of the blogs are personal blogs.

indieWIRE Blogs
http://www.indiewire.com/community/blogs/

Pull quotes and a directory of blogs hosted by blogs.indiewire.com itself, "an invitation-only blogging community that includes indieWIRE staff, contributors and a collection of participants in the independent film industry." indieWIRE is a well-known website where independent filmmakers and fans can interact and find the latest news and information about independent films and the industry itself. Contains a useful directory of movie and film blogs.

KIPlog’s Foodlog - links
http://kiplog.com/food/foodlinks.htm

The mother of all things culinary and gastronomic on the web - a comprehensive index blogs and other food-related web resources. A must-see if you like to eat.

Library Weblogs
http://www.libdex.com/weblogs.html

Geographically categorized directory of library-related weblogs.

MSDN Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/

A blogspace for Microsoft Developer Network members to discuss issues, problems, concerns, and news related to Microsoft products as well as personal musings by employees and developers.

Popdex - the website popularity index
http://www.popdex.com/

This site searches through 14,000 sites daily to find the most popular links. The generated list is not limited to blogs but often lists them and/or what bloggers are blogging about.

Slate's today's blogs: the latest chatter in cyberspace
http://www.slate.com/id/2120610/

Slate.com's summary of what many of the most popular bloggers are talking about, including links to blogs mentioned within the summary. Slate has an archive that can be searched.

Technorati
http://technorati.com/

"Technorati is the recognized authority on what's going on in the world of weblogs." Provides up to the minute statistics on what bloggers are talking about and what the most popular blogs are in various subject areas based on how often a blog is linked to. You can also keep a list of your favorite blogs here.

UThink Blogs @ U Minn - directory
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/

From the UThink homepage: "UThink is available to the faculty, staff, and students of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and is intended to support teaching and learning, scholarly communication, and individual expression for the U of M community." Home page has a Blog Directory link listing all of the blogs on the site.